On Sunday 06 July 2003 09:38, Kurt wrote:
> I have my cache list up-to-date. But when i 'apt-get'
> for gtk, pango, or glib it just tells me "E: Couldn't
> find package xxxx". But I downloaded each of those
> (pango, glib, atk, gtk) from www.gtk.org and it was
> here that I read that atk, pango, and glib were
> required. My immediate problem, is that pango is
> looking for this x develpment thing. Is it looking for
> fonts? I have done apt-upgrade and this does not solve
> anything.

Try using dselect for package selection.  It is a front-end for apt-get and 
last time I used Debian it was installed by default.